Gothenburg City Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Gothenburg City Airport
(Göteborg City Airport)
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IATA = GSE
ICAO = ESGP
type = Public
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operator = Cityflygplatsen i
Göteborg AB
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location = Gothenburg
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r1-surface = Paved
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Gothenburg City Airport or Göteborg City Airport airport codes|GSE|ESGP, formerly (and still informally) known as Säve Flygplats, is Gothenburg's second international airport located 14 kilometres north-west from the centre of Gothenburg (Swedish: Audio|sv-Göteborg.ogg|"Göteborg") on the island of Hisingen, Bohuslän, Sweden. It is located within the borders of Gothenburg Municipality, hence its name. Prior to the arrival of Ryanair in 2001, the airport had 9000 passengers per year. In 2007 more than 750,000 flew from City Airport. In addition to commercial airlines, the airport is also operated by a number of rescue services, including the Swedish Coast Guard.

Although it's primarily a low-cost airline airport, it is actually located closer to Gothenburg city centre than the main airport (Göteborg-Landvetter Airport with 5.2 million passengers in 2005). It is one of the few city airports Ryanair operates to. Due to its location many business jets prefer flying to City Airport rather than Landvetter. Gothenburg City Airport can handle planes up to the size of a Boeing 767, an Airbus A320 or similar jets. The airport also accommodates General Aviation acitivities, including 2 flying clubs, Aeroklubben i Göteborg, one of Europe's oldest flying clubs, and Chalmers flygklubb.

The passenger terminal is spartan with aluminium roofing with exposed trusses. There are a limited number of merchants at the airport.

Transport

There are bus services that match every Ryanair, Air Berlin and Wizz Air departure and arrival, terminating at the bus and train terminal in 30 minutes (cost 60 SEK; about the same time but a little lower price compared to the Landvetter Airport).

Catching a taxi to the city centre costs 330 SEK.

Car rental services are Avis, Budget, Hertz and Europcar. Cars are available from 700 SEK a day.

History

In 1940, a military airbase called Säve was built here. The airbase was closed down in 1969. In 1977 the old airport Torslanda was closed down, and scheduled flights moved to Landvetter, and general aviation was moved to Säve. In 1984, the runway was improved and extended to allow larger business jets etc. In 2001, the airport was renamed City Airport, and Ryanair started operating scheduled flights to London.

Competition

DFDS Seaways cited competition from low-cost air services, especially Ryanair (which now flies to Glasgow Prestwick and London Stansted from Gothenburg City Airport), as being a reason for its scrapping the Newcastle-Gothenburg ferry service in October 2006 [ [http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=4805&date=20060906 "DFDS scraps Newcastle-Gothenburg line"] , "The Local", 7 September 2006: "Danish shipping company DFDS Seaways is to scrap the only passenger ferry route between Sweden and Britain, with the axing of the Gothenburg-Newcastle route at the end of October."] . It was the only dedicated passenger ferry service between Sweden and the United Kingdom, and had been running since the 19th century (under various operators).

Airlines and destinations

*Air Berlin (Berlin-Tegel)
*Ryanair (Alicante, Bremen [starts 29th October] , Dublin, Düsseldorf Weeze [starts 27th October] , Frankfurt-Hahn, Girona, Glasgow-Prestwick, Klagenfurt [starts Dec 2008] , London-Stansted, Madrid, Marseille, Milan-Bergamo)
*Wizz Air (Budapest, Gdansk, Warsaw)

References

External links

* [http://www.goteborgairport.se/ Göteborg City Airport] (official website)
* [http://aip.lfv.se/4AIP-AD/AD2/G-H/ES_AD_2_ESGP_en.pdf Airport information]
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